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Show I TAKING MONEY FROM WOMEN Life insurance companies have recognized that some women that many women are not to be trusted with large sums of insurance money when left alone in the world, and the write nolicies which H provide for the payment oi' principal and interest in regular monthly j, installments, Thai the makers of those polices have judged at least Hj a part of womankind correctly is confirmed by the record of the ex H perionces of Robert Allison, the Chicago "pink pa jam a pirate," who ! made a business of preying on society dames and dashing widows. H' The adventurer recognized the Crailities of women who were left money and he proceeded, as docs a mining promoter, to beguile them, H He kept, a diary in w hich he made a valuation of each of his lad vie- K tuns. Of one he wrote: H "She has unlimited money and ma receive in pajamas She has over $100,000 in three H: Of another woman he said. Hj "She is very rich, very easy very susceptible to young mpn." Hf When women, old or young, widows or otherwise, allow strangers to flatter them, ihey invite trouble and a widow with monev who, accepts attention from ;i chance acquaintance is gambling with big, I stakes including her very soul. |